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homeceo43 · 07-23-2016, 04:35 PM

I just wanted to say thank you to all you wonderful, smart, and very talented people for offering this tool!

I have a KOA 5.8.1 and I use use KOReader to read epubs and PDFs. I use Calibre and already have a #bookshelf column that I use when sending books to my Kobo H20. In Calibre I went ahead and also added a bookshelf to each of my series books (a lot of them) and have modified my send-to-device template for the Kindle to save each book in its "bookshelf" folder ({#bookshelf}/{title} - {authors}) in the documents folder on the Kindle. I'm sending only epubs and PDFs to my Kindle. I found that it is much easier to locate books in the KOReader file manager with the books organized by "bookshelf".

But, I really prefer using KPVBooklet to open the epubs and PDFs directly from the Kindle home menu instead of through KUAL -> KOReader. With about 1200 books in about 200 "bookshelf" folders, I am not manually creating 200 collections. I would just do without .... until I came across this tool.

I installed Librarian Sync and selected "Rebuild collections (from folders)" and it ran and created 1 collection and it was created from the only folder I had put PDFs. I have about 1200 epubs/PDFs mix and none of the epubs were put in collections.

So....did a little digging and found that I could edit the kindle_contents.py file that is in the librariansync folder. I added .epub to the spot where supported extensions are listed.

I then ran Librarian Sync "Rebuild collections (from folders)" again.... and what do you know! It took only 40 seconds to create some 200 collections. All of my epubs and PDFs are now in their appropriate collection.

Just awesome!

07-23-2016, 04:35 PM	#259
homeceo43 Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 77988 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: Texas Device: Boox Palma	I just wanted to say thank you to all you wonderful, smart, and very talented people for offering this tool! I have a KOA 5.8.1 and I use use KOReader to read epubs and PDFs. I use Calibre and already have a #bookshelf column that I use when sending books to my Kobo H20. In Calibre I went ahead and also added a bookshelf to each of my series books (a lot of them) and have modified my send-to-device template for the Kindle to save each book in its "bookshelf" folder ({#bookshelf}/{title} - {authors}) in the documents folder on the Kindle. I'm sending only epubs and PDFs to my Kindle. I found that it is much easier to locate books in the KOReader file manager with the books organized by "bookshelf". But, I really prefer using KPVBooklet to open the epubs and PDFs directly from the Kindle home menu instead of through KUAL -> KOReader. With about 1200 books in about 200 "bookshelf" folders, I am not manually creating 200 collections. I would just do without .... until I came across this tool. I installed Librarian Sync and selected "Rebuild collections (from folders)" and it ran and created 1 collection and it was created from the only folder I had put PDFs. I have about 1200 epubs/PDFs mix and none of the epubs were put in collections. So....did a little digging and found that I could edit the kindle_contents.py file that is in the librariansync folder. I added .epub to the spot where supported extensions are listed. I then ran Librarian Sync "Rebuild collections (from folders)" again.... and what do you know! It took only 40 seconds to create some 200 collections. All of my epubs and PDFs are now in their appropriate collection. Just awesome! Last edited by homeceo43; 07-23-2016 at 04:39 PM.